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Hi,
I appreciate the work Yann did and the support he provides. Hopefully he, or somebody else, can help me. I am quite desperate, since I just want to use Linux rather than spending weeks :mad: now...

Hello,
following this thread I installed the cited synaptics-dkms 1.1.1, and oh wonderful, it gave me the functionality I needed. BUT

A recent system upgrade, which included kernel 2.6.35-25...

Download https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/308191/comments/167

double-click to install. It will


avoid this weird hopping of the pointer
enable...

Addendum: My system is a dual boot with Windows 7. After turning on the wlan driver in Windows, Ubuntu froze every time after startup, requiring a complete shutdown. I conclude both systems interfere...

Hello
I spent the past days(!) on getting wireless to work on my Thinkpad X100e. It appears that the problem is known but no standard solution works. Tried several approaches with no luck.

Here...

this returns a: bash: /etc/modprobe.d/rfkill.conf: Permission denied

How to do it?

Thanks,
Lokesh

It seems that removing kde is the most difficult if not impossible thing!

I did a re-install of all installed packages, which resulted in complete re-installation of KDE! I had purged them...

Apologies for the late reply, I was travelling the whole day.



No! Different user, more luck.

Unfortunately, it did not help. I installed ubuntu-desktop, shut down and turned on, it took quite long at the first time to show the desktop, i.e. something was going on.

But the issue remains.

Its funny, but I realised that ubuntu-desktop is not even installed. I assumed it is by default???

Maybe I give it a try.

Hi,
being new to Linux I tried out different things, e.g. KDE and Gnome in parallel....was no good idea. Even though I purged everything from KDE, there are residual changes that I can't get under...

I am having the same problem with the clock, resulting in crash of the whole system. I installed cairo-dock twice, first through synaptic package manager and then the most recent version through PPA....

Greetings to Holland!

It works like a charm. Thanks a million. Here is my rc.local:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure...

Hi,

by default Bluetooth is enabled on my Intel iMac with Ubuntu 9.10 (I think due to /etc/init.d/bluetooth script).

I would like to disable it at startup w/o manualy disabling it on through...

Hi Las Vegas

thank you for the advice, it worked!

Some additional information for those who are not yet there:


I unzipped the file first, which resulted in a grub22...efi file. I copied...

It does not work for me either. I have an iMac with 10.4 on it, created 20 GB space, then run the installer and put Grub onto the root partition. rEFIt does not reports no syncing required. Thats it:...

Many informations, very challenging....
I have an iMac51, believed it is a 64 bit by definition, though no longer sure after this thread.

I want to install Linux on a firewire drive and boot into...